Ramshackle Glam by Jordan Reid

Ramshackle Glam by Jordan Reid

Parenting & Divorce

Baby Mamas

I have turned into exactly what I feared becoming.

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Jordan Reid
Aug 21, 2025
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Ramshackle Glam is a website about parenting, divorce, aging, mental health, and other funny stuff. Free posts are published every week, but FYI if you want to upgrade you’ll automatically receive an eBook that I wrote just for paid subscribers.

It’s the first day of school, and that little potato up there just helped his sister walk into middle school. I didn’t get a photo of the two of them together, because we were all too busy and excited. I was going to take one when we got to school, but the moment I pulled up at the curb they were off, my daughter hurrying to keep up with her big brother, both of them disappeared down the stairway even as I tried to call out a goodbye.

That’s okay, though; the photo would have been for me. And today is about them.

Ah, my heart. I don’t even know how to describe this particular emotion; it’s so mixed-up in there.

But let’s not dwell, because if we do I might cry, and nobody needs that today. First, here’s a couple of pieces you might have missed:

  • Where Is The Love?

  • Please, Please Stop Telling Me “It Goes So Fast”

  • The Words I Will Not Say

  • The Great and Terrible Trumple

And now…your post! It’s about the Young Moms; a group that I am no longer a member of. Let’s go.

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